Dawn Captures Video on Approach to Asteroid Vesta

By Ben on June 14, 2011 at 3:03 am | In Blog Posts | No Comments

nice clip, more to come as Dawn enters orbit in Mid July.
–Ben

Dawn Captures Video on Approach to Asteroid Vesta

…The video loops 20 images obtained for navigation purposes on June 1. The images show a dark feature near Vesta’s equator moving from left to right across the field of view as Vesta rotates. Images also show Vesta’s jagged, irregular shape, hinting at the enormous crater known to exist at Vesta’s south pole…

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/news/dawn20110613.html